culteranismo
Meanings
noun
- A literary style during the Baroque period of Spain, characterized by a very ornamental, ostentatious vocabulary and a message that is complicated by a sea of metaphors and complex syntactical order.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish culteranismo.
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